Garden Classrooms

We are a small but growing alternative school in the Montreal public schools with a focus on nature and urban gardening.  We have just entered our third year in existence, and this year's garden focus will be to integrate our brand-new grant-funded garden into the classroom pedagogy.

Green School Antigua features an incredible permaculture garden. This garden serves a variety of functions on campus. It provides teachers with a unique teaching environment, children with a safe space to experience growing their own food and the cafeteria with fresh organic produce year-round. 

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life.

Orto in Condotta is the Slow Food school garden project for Italy. The program aims to promote nutrition and environmental education. We use an interdisciplinary method, based on the fundamental role that food plays in everyone’s life. For the Italian school gardens, growing a cabbage with the help of a grandpa is a way to create a new link with the older generation, improve manual abilities and social skills, and learn how to organize and care for common space.